It is a social and political philosophy which encourages people to face up to their own rather nasty human nature and describes policies to protect society.
Compassionate Bastardism is about accepting that we are all bastards and harnessing the greed that drives the majority, but at the same time ensuring that everyone is provided with the means to survive.
Compassionate Bastardism holds that if you want a fair society you have to be a bastard about being compassionate so that your compassion can go to the people that really need it and it cannot be taken advantage of by the bastards.
To make a bastard doesn't necessarily have to refer to people. Giving a legitimate word a new meaning could be bastardising the word. Basically, it's butchering the English language. See orphaned. If you have an idea, and someone takes the idea, changes it around and gives it new meaning, that's bastardising. If you design a newsletter, for instance, and someone else takes over and keeps part of your design but applies elements that don't match up with yours, that's bastardising. You get the drift.
Henry, how do you like the newsletter now that Sue's been doing it for a year?
I'd like it better if she hadn't bastardised my design.
Well, how do you like urbandictionary.com?
Half the people putting stuff up there just bastardise the language.
to embrace bastardy and to live life with the purpose of creating more bastards. It is also a religion.
Hugh practices bastardism and hopes to create as many bastards as he possibly can through the act of having unprotected sex with women out of wedlock.
Hugh is a member of the bastardic faith.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.